Twitter is a social networking website and it is useful to promote your business and website to generate more and more traffic for the benefit of your online business. Tweets, retweets and following others make you more popular over Twitter.

Twitter is a tool for "micro-blogging" or posting very short updates, comments or thoughts. In fact, since Twitter was designed to be very compatible with mobile phones through text messages, each update is limited to 140 characters. Truly, a micro-blog. Another way to think of Twitter is like a cross between instant messaging (IM) and a chat room, because it is an open forum, but you restrict it to the people with which you connect.

Twitter is a short message specialized tool that allows you to convey messages (tweets) up to 140 characters in length to individuals who subscribe to you. Your tweets can incorporate a connection to any web content (blog entry, website page, PDF document, etc.) or a photo or video.